These were purchased July 2012 in an Antique Shop in Phoenix, Az. This store has oodles of photos and postcards all over the place at reasonable prices. So my guess is many more of the photos went to this same family but I grabbed a couple with the best writing on the back to identify them. Meet the McCollum Family.

After Mary came Nancy Caroline (Nan) McCartney. Nan was born on December 7, 1873, in Gibson County, Tennessee. Isaac C. McCollum began courting Nan and the two purchased a marriage license on September 16, 1889, from the Courthouse at Trenton, Tennessee. The two were married on September 17, 1889 by J. W. Crowford, Minister of the Gospel. Nan and Ike’s children were: Bertha Etta McCollum, Edgar Luther McCollum, Onie Bell McCollum, Altie Leona McCollum, Flossie Lillian McCollum, Emmie Irene McCollum, and Lona Mae McCollum.

All good but granddad in a chair is wonderfully iconic. The house or shack behind him has board and batten siding, a very old rural technique of using wide lumber that made for a very drafty house in winter.